Those who do face fines and court.Motions activated sprinklers or lights are a great way to condition animals to stay away. Schools throughout the area do the lockdown drill and they make for cute new stories when caught on camera. The bears don’t actually cause trouble unless startled by accident. At this point I’m hoping the den is not in the tiny green belt attached to my back yard. They are awake enough in this mode to protect themselves but don’t hunt. So motion activated sprinklers don’t make much sense right now.Īccording to local government bear guidance I read today, these bears should be going into a hybrid hibernation any day now. I need to cover the hose spigots in a few weeks as we occasionally, on some years, get some arctic air from November 20 into winter. I can have that go off when we open the patio door as well to help clear the area. I’m leaning towards the radio with a switch. Plus the cold weather issues already raised. Animals that fish literally just shake them off. Sprinklers are often effective with small animals like skunks, but most Bears don’t really care. But still tricky if a child happen to be in the yard at the moment contact occurred. It’s actually less frightening to the bear than something like a pepper bomb where the pain continues and there’s nothing the bear can do about it. If the bear brushes it, they get the shock, but as soon as they withdraw, the shock stops. It can be very effective, but it is usually used in very specific ways. I would definitely talk to the local agent/expert before deploying it. A bear in pain is far more dangerous than one that’s just wandering around looking for garbage cans.Įlectric fencing is complicated, and not legal in all areas. Many ski resort areas also get them at the same time of year, including Lake Tahoe.īTW, with regard to some of the suggestions above, given that the OP has children, I would not use any ambush deterrents like hot peppers that will cause the bear great discomfort. Parts of Alaska and Canada do have " bear lockdowns" at schools, especially in the late fall when the bears are just foraging in a somewhat wider area to prepare for hibernation. So I can also trigger this noise to go off briefly when we open an exterior door. We sometimes forget to make noise when going out into the backyard. I’d just like to discourage him from hanging around our yard and kids as much as possible. Though the bear did break into the bin in the driveway on garbage pickup day last week. We keep our trash inside the garage so not worried about that. Other neighbors have already called this year as well as the school just around the corner that goes into bear lockdown every once in a while. The authorities don’t do much with bears since the sightings are so frequent. There’s a cougar eating dogs about 2 miles away right now according to the Facebook community group. Yeah, we pretty much have the same creatures around as you and we are not far from the city at all. And yes, I expect a lot of false alarms because wind, deer and other creatures move through the same area daily… I’ll have to get a little creative for how to switch it on/off. I already have the 12v garden lights wires which I can add or move to power or trigger something. I’m going to try to come up with a method to trigger a water proof AM radio to turn on to a talk show station. You don’t have to go crazy with this, just wash the outsides of your trash cans with ammonia In a normal concentration or even wipe down a fence along the path. So it may be less likely to annoy your neighbors.Īlso remember that your detector is going to go off when anything goes by, including deer, raccoon, a person, etc.īack from my days when camping, bears really don’t like the smell of ammonia. Also the radio doesn’t have to be loud, you’re just trying to simulate people talking nearby. Nothing else works for this, not music, not crazy noises, but most Bears really don’t want to be around people. But it looks like one of the most effective deterrent is just a radio that comes onto a talk station with human voices. So it’s not usually a long term deterrentĬheck with whoever your local agricultural agent/Expert is for anything specific to your area, including laws about what you can and cannot use. According to the experts, bears pretty quickly figure out that even if something weird is going on like lights and noises, nothing actually happens.
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